DDY on "Mr. Roboto" on Glee

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from http://www.dennisdeyoung.com

I just finished watching Glee and all I can say is booyah!!!

It was the first time Mr. Roboto ever beat More Than A Feeling at anything, take that Tom Scholz. Oh and take that Neil Diamond and Bono and Edge and Larry and Adam, and...

Obviously I'm kidding. While I was watching I thought, Oh no we're gonna be the bad guys but it really didn't turn out that way. I told Suzanne and CarrieAnn while we watched that I thought the Glee kids were not going to win because from a writing perspective there was more drama and lessons to be learned if they came in second.

Sure enough the plot thickens as the ax falls on the arts, very timely I might add. I sense a resurrection is coming.

It was thrilling to see that they more or less used our video as a template for the choreography, staging and lighting. They even did the bit where the lead singer had his initial outfit ripped away to unveil another underneath. The last time I saw that many Roboto masks in one place was 1982 at the Wiltern theater where it was filmed. I would be remiss if I didn't give credit to those who were responsible for the video so let me thank Kenny Ortega who choreographed the Roboto's, two time academy award nominee cinematographer Steven Goldblatt and the late great Brain Gibson who story boarded and directed the Kilroy film and video.

I remember the first day of shooting, I walked in the theater and saw all the par cans on the floor instead of hanging from truss's above. I assumed they were running late but no Steven told me he had the idea to put them all on the floor pointing up like an upside down world, brilliant. To my knowledge this was a first. Anyway it was certainly cool to see old R refusing to go quietly into the night. DOMO ARIGATO to the Glee folks. By the way good old Mike O'Malley from Perfect Man shows up again with Mr Roboto, it must be in his contract. By the way he told me his favorite album was Pieces of Eight.
cheers, ddy

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